570 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Columbigallina passerina var. bahamensis Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1902, 764 

 (Bahama Is., ex Maynard). 



Columbigallina passerina var. bermudiana Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1902, 764 

 (Bermuda, ex Bangs and Bradlee). 



Columbigallina passerina bermudiana American Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee, Auk, XIX, 1902, 318 (Bermuda). — Chapman, Color Key N.Am. Birds, 

 1903, 126, 268 (Bermuda; descr.). — Bowditch, Am. Nat., XXXVIII, 1904, 557 

 (Bermuda; habits). — Reed, N. Am. Birds' Eggs, 1904, 150 (nesting). 



Chamcepelia bermudiana Lowe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI, 1908, 109, in text (crit.). 

 — Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 113, 545, in text (Bermuda; crit.). 



Chamepelia passerina bermudiana American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, XXVI, 1909, 297 (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee, Check List N. Am. Birds, ed. 3, 1910, 150 (Bermuda). — Chapman, 

 Handbook Birds E. N. Am., 1912, 285 (reprint orig. descr.). 



Chcemepelia passerina bahamensis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VII, 191 1, 391 (faunal 

 distribution), 416 (Blue Hills, New Providence; crit.). — Worthington, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., VII, 191 1, 450 (New Providence; The Bight and Pori Howe, 

 Cat I.; Watlings I.; Andros; Abaco; habits). 



Subspecific characters. — Male and female: very similar to C. p. 

 aflavida, but slightly paler above and below, with more whitish on 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts, and bill with less red at the base, 

 often entirely black. 



Measurements. — Male: wing, 79-84 (average, 81.5); tail, 53-60 (56); 

 exposed culmen, 10-12 (10.8); tarsus, 15-16 (15.6). Female: wing, 

 81-84 (82); tail, 53-59 (56.5); exposed culmen, 10. 5-12 (11); tarsus, 

 15-16 (15.4). 



Range. — Bahama Islands (except Great [and Little?] Inagua) and 

 Bermuda. 



Remarks. — This is a rather unsatisfactory and poorly differentiated 

 form. It was described by Mr. Charles J. Maynard as differing from 

 the continental form (C. p. passerina) in smaller size and paler color- 

 ation, and in having the bill constantly wholly black. It is, of 

 course, very different in these respects from C. p. passerina, but its 

 distinctness from the Cuban bird is open to question. Exception has 

 been taken to the constancy of the alleged character of the color of 

 the bill, apparently justified even from an examination of skins alone. 

 Specimens from the type locality, New Providence, are fairly constant 

 in this respect, but an equal series from Rum Cay, besides being 

 somewhat paler throughout — verging thus towards C. p. exigua — 

 show a differently colored bill in the skin, and the probabilities are 

 that in life this difference is accentuated. Moreover, in a specimen 

 from Eleuthera (No. 48,065, Collection Philadelphia Academy of 



